2023 Silmaril Awards nominations: Most Magnificent Dragon

The 8th Annual Silmaril Awards are Upon Us!

Welcome back to the Silmaril Awards, the only awards ceremony on the interwebs for fantasy characters!

We are so pleased and excited to be back for the 8th year in a row (how has it been 8 years already?!) and I am beyond thrilled to be hosting the Most Magnificent Dragon category this year!

If you have no idea what the Silmaril Awards are, keep reading, because it’s loads of fun!

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Limping is Good for Us

I had a whole different blog post I was going to write for today, but sometimes life just sort of takes you out at the knees.

Last night, our power went out. It was rather unexpected, no storms were in the area. Just a few clouds. The family was watching Stargate SG-1, and right about at the climax of the episode… everything went blank.

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How to Watch Bluey as an Adult

Here is our family’s list of 20 episodes for indoctrinating erm, hooking your adult friends on this sweet, clever, brilliant, beautiful cartoon show that manages to pack a whole lot of fun, life lessons, and real-life scenarios into their short 7-minute episodes. We have watched these specific episodes in this order (or close to this order) with 14 different adults now, and all of them have fallen in love with the series the way we did. It’s not a guarantee… but it does come with a high success rate for us.

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The Jolly Genre Jubilee Tag

It’s been a while since I played a good game of blog tag, and so I was riffling through my stacks of blog posts and potential blog posts and found this one that I was tagged for… um… two years ago.

Wow.

I have all these great intentions, you know. I just have been having a hard time keeping up with all the things the past couple of years. I blame all the writing of the books. That’s not a bad thing. It just means that there are seasons when this place is a bit quiet.

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